The Associated Press is reporting that the “oil spill cam” has become an Internet sensation. On Thursday, apparently, “more than a million people watched it. Many found it hypnotic.” Also, apparently, watching the video can “offer clues to who is winni…

Thanks for compiling these in all their weirdness and yuck… The compulsion to set the trauma to music suggests to me that there is a desperation to establish a minimal aesthetic distance that would make the event of the spill into something, shall we dare to say Natural? Luckily the spill ignores this, in brutal fashion. I like your use of “unfolding”!